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[we sang a great many]
hymns in praise of our Glorious Mother. August 16th: shoals of porpoises gambolling amid the dark waters as far as the eye could reach, glorious sunset seen by us for the first time, as heretofore we were in the saloon when…

Sunday 8th. During service go forward thro’ ship, distribute some Agnus Deis [religious objects] and crosses to the few Irish Roman Catholics.
Monday 9th. Fine day- Srs spend most of it on deck.
Tuesday 10th Saloon Concert &…

evening cool and pleasant. Concert on second deck, fine voices, exquisite harmony, grand effect on the waters. Many of the choristers hanging over ship’s side in life boats. August 9th, heavy fall of rain early in the morning, sea rough, air still…

Father Martin was appointed to Hokitika Parish in 1868, and he decided to seek out a community of nuns to undertake the education of the Catholic children in his Parish. The New Zealand Education Act of 1877 provided for funds for secular education,…

The diary was written by Sr Clare Molony, one of the Mercy Sisters from the Ennis community who went on mission to Hokitika, New Zealand, in 1858. It describes their sea journey on the 'Garonne' which took from Aug 1st to Oct 15th. As well as Sr…

Page 1  A.M. D. G. Diary of voyage  from Plymouth to Hokitika From August 1st to Oct. 15th 1878 Left Plymouth accompanied by Father Molony, who by a special privilege obtained permission to accompany us in the tender to the “Garonne” on…

Before the 1860's, Hokitika was a quiet Maori village on the West coast of the Southern island of New Zealand. When gold was discovered there in 1864, thousands left the gold-fields of Australia and rushed to Hokitika to seek their fortune. Within a…

Catherine McAuley founded the first House of Mercy in Dublin's Baggot Street in 1827, in order to provide education and care to the poor of Dublin, particularly women. Catherine, soon joined by other women, later began to visit the sick in hospitals…

Messrs Cleary and Clarke, members of Catholic committee come out to welcome us and accompany us to shore, get into tender at 6.30 p.m. and soon are beside wharf crossing the dreaded Bar so quickly that we are quite unconscious of it at the time. It…

[Sea lovely to look at green]
bright & clear topped with silver foam, shoals of sprats at vessel’s side, Cape hens gliding about & dipping in water – several fine steamers passing by or lying near – got new passengers in Saloon. Monday 24th 2…